January 26, 2011

Here's a list of actual English subtitles from actual Hong Kong Kung Fu Movies, sent to me the other day by an e-mail pal.* These are the results of the original Chinese dialogue being rendered — or rather, beaten out of recognizable shape — into English:

* I received that e-mail in October, 1997, and ran this list in the issue of Envoy Magazine that was just going to print shortly afterward. Anyway, I ran across it again just now and, even a dozen years later, it still evoked a chortle.

6 comments:

If you thought the subtitles of these kung-fu movies were bad, you need to watch some of the Mexican horror movies imported and dubbed by exploition film mogul K. Gordon Murray in the 1960's. Rent the Braniac DVD and you'll die laughing!